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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Women and Strength Training
Women and strength training -- do they go together? Without a doubt! Strength training offers so many important benefits that it should be a part of every woman's fitness program.
The obvious benefit is... it makes you strong! Strong women are able to accomplish their daily tasks with greater ease. Also, if you're strong, you'll look and feel better. Increased self-confidence and self-esteem will be evident in all aspects of your life.
Strength training is your secret weapon to increased metabolism. During cardiovascular exercise, you burn calories and fat and continue to burn calories for a period following your workout -- known as after burn. If you strength train consistently, you add muscle, which is metabolically active 365/24/7. A pound of fat burns about two calories a day. A pound of muscle burns approximately 35-50 calories a day.
Without weight training you could be setting yourself up for Osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a silent disease, because there are no outward symptoms. People with osteoporosis usually don’t know they have it until a sudden bump or fall causes a fracture. Twenty eight million Americans have osteoporosis. Eighty percent of them are women. Most of these women are post-menopausal. Strength training with resistance causes overload on not only the muscles but the bones, tendons and ligaments as well. This overload stimulates bones to retain the minerals necessary to keep them dense and strong (including the joints), thus preventing the onset or progression of osteoporosis.
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